# Anyone else confused by the emotion over Queen Elizabeth's passing? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 9, 2022, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-confused-by-the-emotion-over-queen-elizabeths-passing/971275 "2022-09-09T16:57:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-confused-by-the-emotion-over-queen-elizabeths-passing/971275/341 "2022-09-27T20:18:30Z")
A good point, I amend my statement accordingly. (With the minor quibble that that while the murders in Kenya were done by the British State on what it it would claim was the behalf of the British people, TruCelt appears to be envisaging some sort of popular mob uprising for a slightly different flavours of horror) ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-confused-by-the-emotion-over-queen-elizabeths-passing/971275/342 "2022-09-27T20:25:31Z")
How did Philip’s family become the royal family of Greece? Apparently, they were ethnically German and Danish. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-confused-by-the-emotion-over-queen-elizabeths-passing/971275/343 "2022-09-27T20:26:13Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I didn’t think that was quite what @TruCelt was saying. I thought his point was that QE could have internalized the idea, perhaps unconsciously, that notions of deposing or dissolving the monarchy could result in serious danger for the royal family. Possibly, but this is rather more direct: > [@TruCelt](#): > > Burning it all down” as you so glibly describe it might well have meant the lives of her children. ---
**Author:** ![jehan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@jehan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jehan1)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-confused-by-the-emotion-over-queen-elizabeths-passing/971275/344 "2022-09-28T04:02:47Z")
IN the 1860s the Greek royal line ended (it’s more complicated than that, but essentially the throne was vacant). Greece wanted to remain a monarchy, but there was no Greek royal house, and they didn’t want a civil war if one particular Greek family was placed above others, so they wanted a “neutral” king, who already had some royal prestige, and was young enough to learn Greek customs and language. They asked Queen Victoria for her second son, Alfred, to come to Greece, but she refused. There may have been other choices, but eventually the throne was accepted by the teenage second son of the King of Denmark, Prince William, who became George l of Greece. He married a Russian Grand Duchess who would have been Orthodox, so their kids were raised in the Greek Orthodox religion, and became essentially Greek, although they remained Princes and Princesses of Denmark, as well as Greece. Philip was the grandson of King George l- the son of his fourth son, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-confused-by-the-emotion-over-queen-elizabeths-passing/971275/345 "2022-09-28T17:05:45Z")
Thanks, @jehan1. That’s a nice, concise, understandable explanation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-confused-by-the-emotion-over-queen-elizabeths-passing/971275.md?page=17)